On 1/29/2010 9:21 AM, M. Adam Davis wrote:
>
> I've emailed Orbcomm to see what the pricing for service is like after
> the dev kit period, and if they don't make me sign an NDA I'll publish
> that information here.  I also haven't done a lot of research into
> their network - the satellites store and forward messages, so when
> they aren't within sight of a ground station it can take some time for
> the message to relay, but when in sight of a ground station the
> message is 'real time' for some values of latency.  I don't know what
> their coverage is right now.
>
> -Adam

More here:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/orbcomm.htm

here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbcomm

and here:
http://www.orbcomm.com/
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